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Children in eastern Greece still need urgent help
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Children in eastern Greece still need urgent help

Children and families are still suffering from the catastrophic fire that struck the eastern Greek region of Attica last year, causing over 100 deaths and destruction in villages and housing estates. Following an immediate delivery of aid in 2018, a Wings of Help / Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen e.V. team returned to the affected area east…

“Citizen Award 2019” to Wings of Help
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“Citizen Award 2019” to Wings of Help

“Our society would be much poorer if there were no volunteer engagements,” said the laudatory speech at Wings of Help / Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen e.V. as the charitable aid organization for its many years of service to people in need around the world received a high award: The “Citizen Award 2019 Heroes of everyday Life”…

Humanitarian aid for Mozambique continues
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Humanitarian aid for Mozambique continues

Wings of Help/Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen e.V. brings special nutrition for malnourished children as well as sportswear and computers for teenagers to Maputo A large supply of children’s special food and sportswear as well as shoes for needy young people brought the German aid organization Wings of Help / Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen e.V.  these days in…

Twelve tons of medicines for Mozambique
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Twelve tons of medicines for Mozambique

Wings of Help/Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen organizes medical assistance for 7,000 people in the cyclone areas of Beira and Pemba Trucks carrying 12 tonnes of medicines for about 7,000 people have just arrived from South Africa in the cyclone-hit Beira and Pemba areas of eastern and northern Mozambique. Medical assistance is specifically intended to curb the…

Aid on the ground in devastated Mozambique
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Aid on the ground in devastated Mozambique

On Easter Sunday, Wings of Help / Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen returned from Beira, the epicentre of cyclone “Idai.” They encountered a picture of destruction. Cholera is battering the area. People are at risk of malaria and famine has broken out. Wings of Help / Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen has handed over medicine against Cholera to the…

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Cyclone in Mozambique – Aid workers warn of disease outbreak

After the Cyclone “Idai” devastated the country in South-eastern Africa, the outbreak of diseases is now looming. In the flooded areas, the number of diarrhoea cases is rising and the outbreak of cholera is expected. Clean drinking water is almost nowhere to be obtained. The disaster area stretches for hundreds of kilometres from Mozambique to…

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Help against the Cold

Winter reigns in the Kurdistan refugee camps. Especially the children suffer, whose winter equipment is completely inadequate. There is a lack of blankets, warm winter clothing and even kerosene for the small ovens. As recently in January, Wings of Help had carried out another transport and has now continued this aid. After nine days and…

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Living among sacks, rags and tarps

Chios August 2018 and no hope! The Greek State Ministry publishes daily numbers of new refugees who crossed the waters arriving on the various islands. Since the EU / Turkey pact in 2016 the refugees are being held in hotspots. If their petition for asylum receives a negative response, they are being transported back to…

Help for the children at Hasan Sham and Mosul
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Help for the children at Hasan Sham and Mosul

Wings of Help is getting ready to go on their 5th relief mission to the northern part of the Iraq with a very extensive load of aid supplies primarily for children. Our local point of contact has informed us of the situation and the desperate need for supplies. There are about 4000 children under three…